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Show EVcrt FERSiA SEES THE LIGHT Frightful Conditions of Child Labor in That Country Have Been Greatly Ameliorated. Child carpet weavers of Tersia are to have an easier life hereafter. According Ac-cording to the London Daily News, hv an agreement between the carpet trading trad-ing companies and the Union of Mas: ter Weavers in Herman, no boy may now work in a factory before eight years of age or a girl before ten. An eight-hour day is the maximum for children under fourteen. In addition, not only must the sheds i be properly heated, but the little work- j ers are to be given seats with backs ' on which to sit as they work, singing j the song which tells of the pattern I they are making: they are often too young to remember it by any other method. Bishop Linton of the Church Missionary Mis-sionary societv. in his "Sketches on Persia," tells how in low, unbeaten sheds the children from four or five upward have hitherto sat knotting threads all day and every day. As the pattern climbs the loom the rough beam on which the children sit is raised. To prevent themselves falling fall-ing to the groend they cross their legs underneath, and at the end of the day's work they have to he lifted down, as they are too envnped to waik. Many are permanently crippled and can neer support themselves on their legs. More horrible still is the custom of marriage at eight or nine years. Motherhood, for these little cripples means certain death. |